Vampire Sensou

Due to his involvement with an international terrorist group, Kuki Kosaburo flees to to live under an assumed identity. Kuki has few worries, now spending his time enjoying alcohol and women—until French government agent George Lasaar captures him for his crimes. But rather than throwing him in jail, Lasaar offers Kuki a deal: in exchange for his freedom, Kuki must help him investigate the American Central Intelligence Agency's operations in . Kuki soon becomes entangled in a strange plot involving the blood of famous pop star Lamia Vindaw, leading him to discover another opposing group that he never imagined even existed.

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Kosaburo, Kuki Main

Sugawara, Masashi Japanese

Vindaw, Lamia Main

Koyama, Yuka Japanese

Mirucha ing

Ikeda, Shuuichi Japanese

Muraki ing

Shiozawa, Kaneto Japanese

Girvert ing

Abe, Michiko Japanese

Marguerite ing

Terase, Kyouko Japanese

Brigit ing

Mita, Yuuko Japanese

Lasaar, George ing

Ueda, Toshiya Japanese

Milan, Charlie ing

Aono, Takeshi Japanese

Takenouchi, Kazuhisa Director

Wolskel, John Script

Kitazume, Hiroyuki Original Character Design

Hamasu, Hideki Key Animation, Animation Director

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Jan 18, 2009

animegorey

Recommended

The first 25 minutes are pretty cool. It has the feel of a corny cop movie with good violence and profanity laden action scenes. This 7 foot tall humungous bad guy even punches this whore dead in the face. Blood was flying and they showed a good close-up of the whole thing. I laughed so hard. There were a couple good action sequences when the hero met the vampire. They had a creepiness to them too and it sure seemed like it would be a decent one after all. Then, the bottom fell out. What the F&%# ??? Totally fell apart. Story went to hell ... and all I could do was laugh at how bad it got. I was barely able to finish it. It went bad the same way Genocyber and Doomed Megalopolis fell apart. All 3 are worth keeping, luckily for this one it is only 50 minutes long and I can just shut off after 25 minutes. Total train wreck, but worth watching to decide for yourself. Can be found cheap in eng dub dvd.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 1, 2025

NerdicWarrior

Mixed Feelings

Didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did.
I'd seen the trailer for Vampire Wars on a few Manga Entertainment DVD releases back in the 2000s and it looked to me like another ho-hum, throw away sex and violence title from Manga's library. Having decided on a whim one night to give it a try, I ended up finding myself presently suprised.

Based on a pulp novel series by Kiyoshi Kasai and produced by Toei Animation with Kazuhisa Takenouchi as director, Vampire Wars follows Kuki Kosaburo, a former mercenary living in the red light district of Paris who spends his time on prostitutes and booze. ... After failing to protect a sex worker friend of his from a psychopath and being framed for her murder, Kuki is forced back into service by a shady government agency who want to use him to investigate a terrorist attack on the NASA base in Arizona and the mysterious murder of a French Secret Service agent, which are believed to have been carried out by vampires. If he completes his assignment, he will be granted a full pardon for his alleged crime.
Kuki's search eventually leads him to Lamia Vindaw, a popular young actress who isn't all that she seems and is being targeted not only by the vampires but also the same government agency that hired Kuki along with the CIA.

The story is very good and really grabs your attention while throwing some great suprising twists along the way, even if suffering from some over complexity while being rather silly and dumb in some places. Plus it also suffers from exposition dumping though character dialogue at some points. The animation is decent enough despite looking like it was done on a budget and the action scenes are pretty solid showing that Toei certainly had some of their best animators on this.
That being said, characters get practically no form of development which is pretty typical of your standard half hour B-movie OVA title.
And of course, there is the English dub produced in house by Manga Entertainment which is cheesy as all hell and packed with some stilted performances and hokey American accents. And with the OVA being set in Paris we also get to hear British actors giving their hokiest French accents and, oh boy are they hokey!

Overall, Vampire Wars really doesn't deserve it's status of being one of the worst animes out there. Is it a great vampire/horror anime or one of the best animes in general? No, clearly not.
If anything it's pretty much shlocky B-movie fun that's worth a look.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 25, 2009

bokenhiebing

Not Recommended

The first 5 min of the show are actually entertaining. After that the quality goes in a steady downward decline. This decline will eventually reach 0 and somehow manages to keep going.

Like I said right at the beginning, the show isn't terrible. There is kind of a mysterious quality to it. There seems to be some kind of cover up going on, involving multiple governments of the world. The show then makes the mistake of actually telling you what the story is about. This is the point were it just falls apart. The story's premise is so stupid that..... You know when someone makes ... a comment so stupid and you want to give some kind of response but you find no words that would be appropriate for that level of stupidity. That is how dumb this story is. I am not going to go into great detail but lets just say it has to do with vampires actually being aliens.

You might be thinking; alien vampires OK it sounds B movie-ish, but that could lead to some good action. This is not the case. There isn't very much action at all and the few action sequences the show has are very very short. There is one action scene right at the very beginning, the main character fights off 8 guys all at the same time. This is actually a cool scene, but then nothing near that good happens again. Even with the little amount of action this show has it somehow manages to put a surprisingly large amount of blood on the screen.

I hate to give even a single complement to the show, but the main character is actually fairly good. “Kuki” is a manly man type of guy. You know the kind that guys want to be and girls want to be with. Super secret agent with the ability to kick anyone's ass. The rest of the cast doesn't even come close to him, there just isn't much to anyone of them. Even though I did like “Kuki” he is hardly good enough to carry the show.

The animation was probably not that bad back in 1990. It doesn't hold up honorable to the test of time but it certainly isn't anything that good by todays standards.

The 2 min action sequence at the beginning is good and the main character is cool. Those are the only two good things I can say about this show. The story is one of the worst I have ever heard, poor action, and there is nothing to the rest of the cast. 45 minutes of my life were sucked away.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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